FOXBORO -- The Progeria Research Foundation is holding a fundraiser Wednesday in town to find a cure for the rapid aging disease that inflicted Sam Berns. The event is scheduled from 5 to 9 p.m. at ...

Berns was the star of a popular documentary on progeria, a disease that accelerates aging. His parents, spurred by Sam's own illness, were... Sam Berns, the teen who became nationally known for his ...

A Foxborough teenager who became a “friend and inspiration” to many members of the New England Patriots organization, including owner Robert Kraft, died on Friday. Sam Berns was 17 and died from ...

Sam Berns died last week, at the age of 17. I never knew him, but he touched my heart -- and those of so many others. I first saw his picture years ago. A teenager weighing 50 pounds and looking like ...

Nearly seven years after his death, the irrepressible spirit of Sam Berns was palpable last week as a drug treatment for progeria, the rare genetic disorder that causes premature aging, won approval ...

Sam Berns, whose battle with a rare and fatal genetic condition that accelerates the aging process inspired the New England Patriots players and was the subject of an HBO documentary "Life According ...

A teenager whose battle with a rare genetic condition that accelerates the aging process inspired professional athletes and spurred medical research was honored at his funeral on Tuesday. Hundreds of ...

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a drug that extends the lives of children with an extremely rare genetic disorder that causes them to grow old before they grow up. The disorder, progeria ...

PEABODY — The Progeria Research Foundation (PRF) started at a kitchen table in Peabody. Now, it is one of the main reasons there is an approved treatment for one of the rarest diseases in the world.

Sam Berns, the teen who became nationally known for his fight against a disease that accelerates aging, died on Friday from complications of his disorder. As our friends at Shots explained back in ...